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Colossians 2:8–15 offers firstly a "general warning" against accepting a purely human philosophy, and then Colossians 2:16–23 a "more specific warning against false teachers". [30] In these doctrinal sections, the letter proclaims that Christ is supreme over all that has been created.
Similarly, though Paul envisions Christ's triumph over rulers and authorities as a future event (1 Cor 15:24), Colossians 2:15 acknowledges this as having already occurred. [29] Another intriguing distinction between the Colossian correspondence and the "7 authentic letters" is the lack of a financial request for the poor in Jerusalem. [30]
Minuscule 321, first page of Colossians. Colossians 1:14 (see Ephesians 1:7) απολυτρωσιν δια του αιματος αυτου (redemption through the blood of him) – 383 424 614 630 1505 1912 2200 2344* 2464 Byz pt (i.e., 76 206 221 223 330 876 1518 1611 1960 2005 2412) ℓ mss vg cl syr h arm slav Gregory Cassiodorus
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length.
2 Samuel: 2 Samuelis also known as 2 Regum: 2 Kings: The Second Book of Samuel, otherwise called the Second Book of the Kings 1 Kings: 3 Regum: 3 Kings: The First Book of the Kings, commonly called the Third Book of the Kings 2 Kings: 4 Regum: 4 Kings: The Second Book of the Kings, commonly called the Fourth Book of the Kings 1 Chronicles: 1 ...
Fragments showing 1 Timothy 2:2–6 on Codex Coislinianus, from ca. AD 550. The original Koine Greek manuscript has been lost, and the text of surviving copies varies. The earliest known writing of 1 Timothy has been found on Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 5259, designated P133, in 2017. It comes from a leaf of a codex which is dated to the 3rd century ...
The structures of the two letters (to which Best refers) include opening greetings (1 Thessalonians 1:1a, 2 Thessalonians 1:1–2) and closing benedictions (1 Thessalonians 5:28, 2 Thessalonians 3:16d–18) which frame two, balancing, sections (AA'). In 2 Thessalonians these begin with similar successions of nine Greek words, at 1:3 and 2:13.
Onesimus of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Ὀνήσιμος, romanized: Onēsimos, meaning "useful"; died c. 107 AD, according to Catholic tradition), [1] also called Onesimus and The Holy Apostle Onesimus in the Eastern Orthodox Church, [2] was a slave [3] to Philemon, a man of Christian faith.